Wintery Mix of Snow, Rain, Ice Pellets

Evie's Easter Cookies

7:45

Up at 6:30, Evie's already up reading on her IPAD, coffee's made, the lake is just beginning to lighten.  My flag has been shredded by yesterday's vicious wind and there's more wind today, up to forty miles an hour.  It's 28º outside, not a very pleasant look to the day, cold and wet, with snow later in the evening.  And yoga has been cancelled by Chris because of weather.  This is becoming too common and it's fine this morning on the roads.

Ripped Welsh Flag

I went to yoga yesterday at 9:30, but Evie stayed home because she wanted to get some cookies made and decorated for the Hayden and Halle because they are leaving for vacation on Friday.  Yoga was crowded with three guys as well as the usual ladies.  It was a good class, again, some new poses, most that we held for at least three or four minutes, slowly stretching and gaining extra mobility.  This kind of yoga does not emphasize strength but getting a deeper stretch. Our teacher is good because she goes around the room correcting and helping various individuals to extend and deepen their poses.  We did spend quite a bit on time on the back, variations of the cobra, even some strengthening which I liked.

The End of a Welsh Flag

Evie took off when I got home, to work out at the YMCA, keep up her routine, and to run some errands.  She had also finished baking and decorating the cookies and wrapped them for mailing so she stopped at the post office as well.  Neither one of us did anything exciting yesterday afternoon, as it was stormy and gray outside.  So we read, watched some TV, and relaxed.

March madness has already begun as ESPN had a four hour show on the various teams, players, coaches yesterday afternoon.  It, the run up to the games, has become as big a thing as the games themselves.  I read an interesting article on from the Washington Post website called "March Sadness Not March Madness," which emphasized what I have felt all along.  Because players are often 'one and done,' go pro after a year, we never really get to know them, and there is no sense of a team developing over the years.  Thus, we no longer have the interest in the teams like we did years ago.  Or perhaps I am just  getting old and curmudgeonly.

Dinner was left over corned beef and cabbage, with vegetables, just as good as the day before.  We watched The Good Wife, a few other shows, read, and went to bed early.  Not a very exciting day except for the yoga and the cookie making.  I did finish LAST WORDS, George Carlin's autobiography and started on a book my nephew Pat Holzheimer recommends highly, ARCADIA.  So far, I really like it.